Grant McMillan
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Well, it has been quite a year! COVID-19 has pushed us hard. And in my last blog post of the year, I am not going to dwell on it or look back on it because nobody needs that. What I am going to say is you make me proud. I was speaking with someone who… Read More Kudos to YOU!
Supporting Student Success
OCTOBER 8, 2020
By: Tricia Seifert. When I was a kid, I dreamt of traveling the world. I remember friends from a youth organization (4-H) hosting an exchange student from Japan. I was in grade 4 and I wanted to learn all about this student’s life back home and how it compared to her experience in the US. When I was in high school, I begged my parents to become a host family.
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Will Richardson
APRIL 23, 2020
As educators, parents, and students have scrambled over the past couple of months to figure out how to move school online quickly and at scale, I can’t help but be reminded of a pivotal scene in the movie Apollo 13. After having to abandon their trip to the moon due to an explosion, the three astronauts suddenly find themselves struggling for oxygen in their emergency home in a lunar module designed to support only two people.
The Change Leader, Inc.
DECEMBER 29, 2020
The year 2020 has been a year of crises and opportunities in higher education. The year’s challenges have given higher ed institutions a chance to practice change management, as well as necessitated a sustained focus to build leadership capacity for higher ed and more targeted higher ed branding.
Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Image Credit: Design by Joe Arton This podcast series focuses on creative approaches to practicals and field work in online and hybrid spaces. Robbie Nicol, a professor of place based education, and Heidi Smith, a lecturer of outdoor learning at Moray House School of Education and Sport, discuss the critical role of place based education in hybrid teaching and learning and it’s capacity to support health and wellbeing.
Credo Higher Ed
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Photo Credit: NCICU.org. North Carolina Independent College and Universities (NCICU) and Credo are pleased to announce a partnership to improve student outcomes across the North Carolina independent college and university sector. The first cohort will launch in August 2021.
Regna Consulting
DECEMBER 6, 2020
Boston Globe, Updated September 9, 2020 As told to Katie Johnston. Photo by SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF. Aixa Beauchamp is a Newton philanthropy consultant, cofounder of the Latino Legacy Fund at the Boston Foundation, and a philanthropist. Here, she talks about challenging the racially coded language people use and trying to understand what’s behind it.
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Higher Ed Connects: Diversity
DECEMBER 1, 2020
by Terri E. Givens. As a political scientist I am acutely aware that the November election was an indicator of the ongoing divides in our country. I wrote my book, Radical Empathy , in part to address those divides, but there are many divides that are impacting our country, leading to divisions within families and across communities. Institutions of higher education often find themselves in the middle of these divides as they work to address longstanding practices that hurt women and minorities,
Teaching Matters Student Engagement
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Photo Credit: Daniel Mutia MCF Kickabout In this fourth post in our Spotlight Series: Voices of Movers and Shakers , Daniel Mutia a fourth year MasterCard Foundation Scholar studying BEng (Hons) Electronics and Electrical Engineering describes the transformative power of Edinburgh University Sport Union and how it can support leadership development, mental wellbeing, and a sense of belonging… Sport has the power to change the world…it has the power to inspire.
Teaching Matters Academic Support
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
All photos courtesy of Oscar Ukwizagira In this fourth post for the “ Spotlight: Voices of Movers and Shakers” series , Oscar Ukwizagira, a student in Civil Engineering, tells us about his journey joining the University’s Karate Club and how it has contributed to his overall wellbeing, sense of belonging and leadership skills… “An athlete is a normal person with a gift of an undying passion to be the best and achieve greatness” – Amanda Ring.
CU Work-Life Balance
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
CU custom courses, housed in Skillsoft, help CU campuses and departments meet their training needs, advance university goals, and, as shown in the examples below, may even help save lives. The Employee Learning and Development team’s instructional designers partner with campus departments to develop CU-specific courses that have the potential to make a significant impact.
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
Image Credit: Remix by Joe Arton. Originals, Riccardo Annandale Unsplash and William Marsden, University of Edinburgh Collections Catalogue No. 0054810. In this latest post in our Spotlight: Voices of Movers and Shakers series, Martine Irakoze a Mastercard Scholar at the University of Edinburgh in International Relations & International Law tells the story of her leadership journey, who she is as an activist, entrepreneur and student leader and the struggles and mental pressures behind her s
Will Richardson
MARCH 28, 2020
Right now, we have millions of parents shouldered up to their children trying to help them do school. I’m reading a fair share of both funny and sad accounts of parents who are trying to navigate this new role of surrogate teacher or coach in terms of setting schedules or giving feedback or making the technology work or just getting “coverage” Frustration levels are high, and my sense is that most parents can’t wait for this to be over and will be happy to send their kids
The Change Leader, Inc.
OCTOBER 1, 2020
In this podcast, we discuss how the pandemic influences university presidential searches and the challenges colleges and universities face when dealing with leadership changes.
Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Photo credit: Glen Cousquer This month’s short issue will focus on things not going as expected in our learning and teaching environments and how we might turn these experiences into opportunities. There is a lot of pressure in academia to get things right first time, to excel, to demonstrate how much we know, to communicate to others what we can do, and to maintain the sense of the University as a site of higher learning.
Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
by Dawn DiPeri. The American Council on Education surveyed 2,000 college students in April 2020 and found that 20% of them were unclear about their plans for the 2020/2021 school year. Instead of returning to campus, several of these students embarked on a gap year. The gap year is a common practice in Europe, but since the pandemic it has become a popular choice for college students all over the world.
Credo Higher Ed
OCTOBER 29, 2020
The COVID-19 world pandemic has created academic, social, and financial crises on our campuses and has quickly and dramatically changed the landscape of higher education. Educational leaders across the country are attempting to respond to these crises by determining safe and effective models for their educational systems. There is no doubt that COVID-19 has been one of the most deadly and disruptive viruses in over a century.
Teaching Matters Online Learning
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Image Credit: Remix by Joe Arton. Originals, Jonathan Francisca Unsplash and Duncan Kidd Unsplash. Welcome to November’s Issue: Creative Approaches to Practicals and Fieldwork in Online/Hybrid spaces. As colleagues worked hard over the summer to envisage how they were going to teach their courses this autumn, there was one question I was asked by many people: how are we going to teach practicals and fieldwork?
Blackboard Higher Education
OCTOBER 29, 2020
As members of the newly formed Blackboard Student Advisory Council, we’ll be expanding upon Blackboard’s ongoing commitment to student success by sharing our voices with the company as it plans and designs its software and solutions. We’ll play a critical role in ensuring the student perspective is incorporated into the company’s product planning and design.
Collegis Education Data Management
OCTOBER 28, 2020
At Collegis Education, data is in our DNA. It’s the foundation of everything we do. Higher education institutions have a mountain of data at their fingertips. But for many, the more data they have, the more challenging it can be to find meaning in it. It’s far too easy for patterns and insights to become hidden in the rows and columns of a daunting spreadsheet.
Teaching Matters Academic Support
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Photo credit: Cristina Gottardi, Unsplash CC0 In this post, Fingal Dorman, Counsellor at the University’s Student Counselling Service, reflects on the challenges of carrying on with his work from home and the importance of providing a solid space for students in particularly disquieting times… These times are unsettling. At a time when we have all been enclosed in our separate boxes, I’d like to give a window into what the Student Counselling Service looks like in this time: how we h
Higher Ed Connects: Technology
OCTOBER 1, 2020
by Dawn DiPeri. A curated list for higher-ed administrators. How to work from home – with breaks from the screen, exercises for the eyes and body, and tips for reducing the need for excessive online meetings. . Since COVID-19 arrived, record numbers of higher-education administrators and staff working remotely have been inundated with web conferences, online meetings, and webinars using various online conferencing software such as Zoom, Google Meets, Google Hangouts, Facetime, Skype, Adobe Conn
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Photo by Ellie Morag In this post, Johanna Holtan, Program Director of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, introduces the new Spotlight Series: Voices of Movers and Shakers that will feature writings by Mastercard Foundation Scholars on disruptive learning practices, transformational leadership, activism in and outside the classroom, and more… I’m very proud to launch a collaborative blog series between Teaching Matters and the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Edinburgh.
EAB
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Use the industry-wide data and resources below to inform your graduate, online, and adult degree completer growth strategy. Data shown on this page is drawn from EAB’s Organizational Benchmarking Survey. The survey collects over 80 different data points from nearly 300 institutions on academic governance, portfolio composition, and revenue outcomes for professional, continuing, and online education divisions.
The Change Leader, Inc.
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Strategic board leadership is an emerging paradigm of university governance that can help higher education institutions navigate multiple challenges. This podcast features Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Henry Stoever, president of AGB. Changing Paradigm of University Governance Typically, higher education boards are made up of individuals who are appointed as trustees because they have made significant philanthropic contributions, either to the institution or, in the case of public universities, to a
Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Image Credit: Richard Fitzpatrick, a top view of CaMKII (a protein used in memory formation) in a Minecraft world created using Minecraft blocks. In this post, Richard Fitzpatrick a final year PhD student working in the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences as part of the University of Edinburgh-Zhejiang University partnership, explains how the popular sandbox videogame Minecraft can be used for teaching and how it can lead to sustained engagement, enthusiasm, and creativity.
Teaching Matters Student Engagement
AUGUST 17, 2020
Photo credit: Pierangel Bettoni, Unsplash CC0 This is the ninth post in the ‘Spotlight on ELIR’ series , where PhD intern Vesna Curlic reflects on her work on engaging students with the review process and considers how student engagement will be different in the upcoming academic year. This reflection comes in a difficult context. As each day passes, September looms closer and for many, it is still unclear what the first term of the 2020-2021 academic year will hold.
Credo Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Our team recently wrapped up a Leading Through Disruption interview and survey series with college presidents across the country. Collectively, these leaders serve nearly 70,000 students in 19 states at a range of independent institutions in city, rural, and suburban locations. This content series focuses on what we heard from them.
Teaching Matters Online Learning
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Photo credit: Luca Bravo, Unsplash CC0 In this post, Thomas Bak and Brittany Blankinship, from the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, summarise the findings from a study they conducted on comparing face to face and online teaching, addressing how expectations influence satisfaction… Imagine that you are booked on a very nice-looking beach holiday, sunshine, warm sea, cool drinks in the shade; and all this in an attractive historic town.
Blackboard Higher Education
OCTOBER 26, 2020
¿Puede la IA mejorar la forma en que las instituciones atienden a sus estudiantes? Una encuesta reciente realizada por Blackboard y la University Business reveló algunas ideas interesantes sobre el sentir de la educación superior con respecto a la inteligencia artificial. La encuesta consultó a miembros de educación superior en la University Business, incluyendo a 130 participantes quienes ocupan una variedad de cargos de alto nivel, incluidos CIO, CTO, líderes de inscripción y admisión, preside
Higher Ed Connects: Leadership
AUGUST 1, 2020
by Terri E. Givens. As the fall semester approaches, anxiety for faculty, students and parents is on the rise. Many of the institutions that were planning a face to face or hybrid approach for classes are having to pivot as coronavirus cases continue to increase across the country. I have many friends who are faculty and seeing the concerns they have been raising in discussion forums led me to host a webinar this past week to give them a perspective from a former provost.
Teaching Matters Academic Support
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Photo credit: Vivek Doshi, Unsplash CC0 In this post, Rayya Ghul, University Lead for the Edinburgh Teaching Award, draws from solution-focused practice to suggest some useful questions we could ask ourselves to better navigate times of distress… This is a question often used by solution-focused practitioners when supporting people who are going through or anticipating a difficult time or situation.
Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs
JULY 15, 2020
by Dawn DiPeri. A guide aimed at helping face-to-face instructors who have recently migrated online. Introduction. This article addresses the ways in which recently migrated online instructors can spot and help struggling students through the lens of the recent pandemic. I argue that prior to the forced migration of online courses, face-to-face faculty generally felt well equipped to spot struggling students, but may have difficulty in the online modality.
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
SEPTEMBER 27, 2020
Image Credit: Original Mathias Jenson Unsplash, Remix by Joe Arton In this post, Professor Tina Harrison Assistant Principal for Academic Standards and Quality Assurance and Nichola Kett Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement Team outline a new theme supported by The Quality Assurance Agency and highlight a call for expressions of interest for collaborative clusters.
MultiFamily Insider
JULY 2, 2020
"How much to charge for a parking space" is a common concern we hear on a frequent basis. A lot of communities, specifically in the multifamily industry, struggle with knowing how much and when to charge for parking due to the concern of negative response or backlash from residents. It is an unfortunate reality, that offering free parking at a community such as an apartment complex or shared condo parking lot can lead to numerous issues and even place a higher long-term cost on the local communi
The Change Leader, Inc.
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
There are two components of this: one where agreement may be found, and one where there will be disagreement. The first is the general acceptance that education—and especially higher education--has to be faster, better and less expensive. However, the second, that higher education needs to be more accessible to people.
Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Image Credit: Remix by Joe Arton. Originals Unsplash. In this post, Dan Swanton Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Degree Programmes Convener for the Geography Degrees in the School of GeoSciences, describes the development of a hybrid field course for Year 3 students on the Masters of Geography programme. This alternative approach opened up paths of growth and discovery, practices of participation and observation, and innovative ways of study in the field… Field courses are a key part
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